Cloth-straightening machine



W. GIGLIOTH.

CLOTH STRAIGHTENING MACHINE.

APFLlCATiON FILED OCT. 12. 1920.

1,404, 1 1 O. Patented Jan. 17, 1922.

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INVENTCXI UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLOTH-STRAIGHTENING lvIACHINE.

Specification of Letters ?atent.

Patented Jan. 17, 1922.

application filed October 12, 1920. Serial No. 416,571.

To all whbm it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVILLIAir GIGLIOTTI, a citizen of the United States,residing at North Adams, in the county of Berkshire and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cloth-Straightening Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for straightening cloth while beingwound upon a roller, the principal. object of the invention being toprovide a plurality of rollers over which the cloth is passed with meansfor placing some of the rollers in an inclined position to straightenthe cloth as it passes over said inclined rollers.

Another object of the invention is to make the bearings for saidadjustable rollers movable so as to permit the inclining of saidrollers.

This invention also consists in certain other features of constructionand in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to behereinafterfully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings andspecifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing my invention in detail, reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like orcorresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1is a plan view of the device.

Figure 2 is a View of one side thereof.

Figure 3 is a view of the other side.

Figure 4 is a section on line 4:-4: of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a section on line 55 of Figure 1.

Figures 6 and 7 are detail views.

In these views 1 indicates the frame of the machine which is supportedon the legs 2, the rear legs being longer than the front legs so thatthe device is higher at the rear than at the front. The side bars of theframe have secured to the lower edges the bearing boxes 3 for supportingthe lower rollers 4. A box 5 is secured to one end of each of the sidebars of the frame and these hearings support the shafts 6 for the takeuproller 22. Movable boxes 7 are arranged on the upper edge of one of theside bars of the frame, each of these boxes being formed of a ring likemember having vertically extending studs 8 thereon which engage holesformed in the edge of the side member and in the bar 9 which is locatedabove said upper edge and which is secured thereto. It will thus be seenthat these boxes may have rocking movement about a vertical axis.Boxes/T are arranged in pairs at the other side of the apparatus. Eachpair of these boxes are connected together by the bars 10. These boxes 7are secured to a bar 11 which slidably mounted. on the upper edge of theside bar of the frame and has one end extending upwardly, as at 12. Thisupwardly extending part is provided with a screw threaded opening 18 toreceive a screw shaft 14 which is provided with a handle 15 so that itcan be rotated by hand. This shaft is rotatably mounted in the upright16 which is secured to the end of the frame, this shaft being sosupported that it can rotate in the upright but cannot movelongitudinally therein. The bar 11 is slidably secured to the side barof the frame by means of the brackets 17 which embrace the said side barand are secured thereto by the bolts 18 which pass through thelongitudinally extending slot 19 in said side bar. Each pair of boxes 7are movable about a vertical axis by having their cross bar 10 pivotallysecured to the top of the bracket 17 by a vertically arranged bolt, asshown in Figures 1 and 3. This arrangement of parts will permit therollers to assume an inclined position when the bar 11 is moved alongthe frame.

The roller 20 containing the roll of cloth to be straightened is placedin the supports 21, provided therefor on the frame, and the cloth isthen unwound and passed over the rollers to the take-up roller 22 whichis proyided with a handle or pulley for rotating it.

After the cloth is secured to the take-up roller the same is rotated towrap the cloth thereon and unwind it from the roller 20 and when acrooked stretch of cloth is encountered the adjustable rollers are movedto straighten this stretch so that the entire strip of cloth will bewound up on the takeup roller with its edges even. The boxes may beprovided with ball bearings to eliminate friction in the rotation of therollers.

In cases where the cloth comes in a box which is too large to be placedat the front of the machine, the box is placed at the rear of themachine and the cloth is passed under the rollers 25 carried by the legsof the device and over the roller 20. The path taken V by this cloth isshorvn by a dot and dash line in Figure 2. From the roller 20 the clothfollows the path taken by the cloth when unwound from roller 20.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages andnovel features of my invention will be readily apparent.

I desire it to be understood that I may i make changes in theconstruction andin the ofsaid second set of rollers, a bar connectingthe boxes of each pair together, a support for each pair, means forconnecting the bar to the support so that the bar can rotate about avertical axis and means for sliding rollers, means for mounting said boxso that it can rotate about a vertical axis, bearing boxes, arranged inpairs, for the other ends of said second set ofrollers, a bar connectingthe boxes of each pair together, a support for each pair, means forconnecting the bar to the support so that the bar can rotate about avertical axis and means for sliding the supports longitudinally of theframe to place the second set of rollers in an inclined position, saidmeansconsisting of a bar upon which the pairs of boxes rest, a screwthreaded shaft engaging the screw threaded opening in said bar and ahandle on the shaft.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WILLIAM GIGLIOTTVI.

